McCoy Not In 50th Anniversary Special?

Den of Geek caught up briefly with Sylvester McCoy for a micro chinwag on some of the events that have been taking place in his life recently.

Whilst talking about his illustrious career and the plans he had next, McCoy did make one comment regarding whether he was to appear in the fiftieth anniversary Doctor Who episode, with a succinct statement of:

No!

To be fair, that wasn’t the whole answer, as the little legend will be taking part in some fiftieth anniversary events:

Somebody mentioned something that the BBC is running on the weekend when it goes out [the recent three day event announced by the BBC]. Big Finish have done us proud, they’re coming out with something really exciting. The BBC, we’ve heard nothing though.

Now to be fair, it may be time for us to forget about any other past Doctor’s appearing in this year’s anniversary special, we’ve got the Tenth Doctor and Rose, the Eleventh Doctor and Clara and Zygons as well. Maybe we’ll get one or two other surprises but it may be time to let Moffat and Co get on with the filming of this very special adventure and just wait until November to see what surprises we get.

Remember 2005? Remember the excitement of new Doctor Who with a new Doctor, a new companion and new adventures? No one finished that ride complaining about the lack of old Doctors. This year will be very much the same, one suspects.

But back to the matter in hand; you’ll want to read the interview with Sylvester himself, rather than hearing us go on about Doctor Who all the time; there’s enough of that here already!

Head over to Den of Geek where you can read about Sylvester’s thoughts on the recently departed Richard Briers, who he worked with in 1987’s Paradise Towers, his filming for The Hobbit, his theatre experience whilst touring King Lear and his thoughts on the difference between film and theatre.